Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30
Especial Correspondence

Wealthy Ma1dens-How Some Women
Manage Their Fortunes.
Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, April 90.
The death of the rich Catherine Wolfe calls
attention to the rich women of the United
States. This Is an age not only of million
aires, but of millionairesses as well. The
wealthy women Of the United States are now
numbered by hundreds, and every city has its
Girls who are worth their weight in gold.
The richest woman of them all is, perhaps,
Mrs Hetty Green, of New York, who is
worth 100000, and has been estimated as
rrh as $40,000,000 She is a sharp business
woman. and has made the S13, 100000 which
sbo received from her father breed RAPIDLY.
She added 100000 to her fortune by mar
rage. and she cuts her expenses more closely
than many a woman who is worth thousand
times less Mrs. Mark Hopkins, who is build
ing a $4,000, 600 palace at Great Darlington,
Mass. is, however, nearly as rich. She is
worth somewhere between S2O,OOO,OOO and
S4OOOO,OO0, but her money comes from her
husband, Mark Hopkins, who made a for
tune out of the Central Pacific rail-
road Hopkins estate when he died
was inventoried at sd, 900, and it
was worth fully one-third more Nearly the
whole of this was left to Mrs. Hopkins, and
she spends her large income generously. Mrs
Terry got one-third of her husbands fortune
Of about SS0000,0O0, and in case her baby
dies she will get the rest. This baby is a girl
MT yet2 years old. she is worth at least
SjO,00O,000, and is said to be the wealthiest
baby in the world.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor, of New York, is
said to be worth SS,OOO,OOO, and all her
relatives have gold galore Mrs Thomas A.
Scott the widow of the railroad president,
is worth S5,000,000, and Mrs. Joseph Harri-
son, the widow of the man who built the first
railroad in Russia, $4,000,000 Mrs. Jayne,
the widow of the patent medicine man, is
worth So, 100000 Mrs. Josephine NJ. Aver,
who gets her money also from patent medi-
cine, is estimated to be worth from 81, 600, 900
to S5,OOO,OOO, and Mrs. Edwin Stevens, of
New York, has S15,00000O.
New York has a number of other rich
widows Mrs. Martin Bates was left 81, $780,
600, which her husband made in dry goods,
AND Mrs. Jane Brown received from her
husbands estate about $4,000 900, which was
accumulated in banking. Mrs. w. E.
Dodge, estimated at $4,000 600, sends much
of her income to the heather, and Mrs.
Robert Goelet, worth S3,0OO00O, owes her
fortune TO hardware. Mrs. John G. Green is
said to be worth 1000, 900, and Mrs. Com
modore Vanderbilt has increased the 81, 000,-
600 which she received from her husbands
estate until it is near 100000 Clarllson
Potter's widow has an immense income. Mrs.
John Minturn is worth 100000. Mrs.
Marshall O. Roberts, the eight millionaire
widow of a mining king, is said to have cried
when it was charged that she was about to
marry President Arthur.
***
Philadelphia widows are numerous, and
there are rich women Of all kinds in the City
of Brotherly Love- I have spoken of Mrs.
Tom SCOTS wealth Mrs Disston, the widow
Of the saw manufacturer who died not long
ago, is worth 100000 and she lives in
marble ualace. Mrs. John Ray Barton
is worth $1,000, 900; Mrs. M. W. Baldwin,
the widow of the locomotive builder, is es-
timated as worth 81, 100000, and Mrs. Charles
Bromley, the widow of a carpet manu-
facturer, is worth about 81, 000,0 900.
There is a widow in Chicago, Mrs. Cyrus
II. Mccormick, who is said to be worth So,
100000, and as to Washington's wealthy wild
ows, they are many. Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren
has several fine houses in the fashionable part
of Washington, and Mrs. John o. Evans, the
widow of the late president of the Mutual
Union Telegraph company, owns much Wash
ington real estate. Mrs. Craig Wadsworth,
of New York, has fine residence on MasSa-
chusetts avenue and is said to be worth
S1,000,000. Mrs. Patten, the mother-in-law Of
Congressman Glover, lives in house worth
$4,000 and keeps, it is said, Sl,0O0,00O in
government bonds in the Washington banks.
49,
AS to rich young women there are numer-
GUS good catches in the United States. Miss
Elizabeth Garrett, the sister of the president
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, is said to
be worth between SIC, 000,0 900 and $40, 900,
and she is both bright and business like. The
three daughters of Francis A. Drexel, of
Philadelphia, are worth $4,000, 600, and there
is millionaire girl in Tennessee named
Maud st. Pierre, who lately bought "a, 600
acres of coal lands and who has enough
business ability to manage her own fortune
and husband as well. One of the richest
young ladies in Washington is Miss Jennie
Riggs, whose father, George w. Riggs, was
mariner of w. w. Corcoran, and there is
Miss Bernice Morrison in st. Louis who sew
eral years ago was down on the tax lists as
being worth 1864, 800. Miss Clothilde Palms,
the Detroit beauty, whom Senator Jones III
vain tried to WOO, is said to be worth s., $780,
600. and she is as beautiful as she is rich, and
there is now hardly a city in the United
States which has not an heiress or two whose
fortune runs high into the hundreds of thou
sands. Miss Benson, of Philadelphia, IN
herited 81 $780, 900 from her father, who was
well known Philadelphia banker, and Miss
Helen Erben, another Philadelphia girl, the
daughter of a wealthy wool factor, is also
worth a million. ***
Miss Erben is a fine horsewoman. She
drives a spanking pair of bay horses, and
often a tandem. The Drexel girls are also
fond of horses, and this is, in fact, their only
destination. Each of these three four million
airesses has a splendid Arabian steed which
goes like the wind. They ride out from their
country seat near Philadelphia as early as
O'clock in the morning, and they go galloping
about the country until their cheeks are like
roses They are said to be as well posted ON
horses as veterinary surgeons, and they some
times it is said, rub down their horses them
selves after they come in from hard drive.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins is another great horse
woman She is as fond of horses as was her
husband. and her stables at Great Darlington
are among the completest and most comfort
able in the country. She keeps well bred
horses. and every fair day you may see her
about Great harrington driving behind par
of fine trotters and herself holding the relnS.
She makes long excursions around the sur
rounding country, and every inhabltant Oh
the colony knows her.
as
Mrs. Hopkins is noted for her cnarlty'
IN, = Ill, ~ Groat harrington, which